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PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 4:55 pm    Post subject: Rodian Ships? Reply with quote

I've done a search here and on Google but my search skills are coming up empty.

Is anyone aware of star ships that are specific to Rodia? Produced there? Primarily used by Rodians?

The only thing I could come up with was something called the "Home Fleet" but nothing specific about the ships in it.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't know of anything, but I imagine that, like a lot of species well-integrated into galactic society, and roughly in the 1.5-2m tall range of humanoids, they tend to use things that are more or less on par with everyone else. The Rodian "Z-95 Headhunter" won't be called a Z-95 Headhunter, necessarily, but it will be statistically equivalent.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 7:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rodia is also a pretty primitive world compared to most. They do have some pretty modern starports were ships from other world land, but the rest of the planet is mostly wilderness with fairly simple technology.
I don't think Rodia has any facilities to build ships. What ships they have are bought from other worlds.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 8:57 pm    Post subject: Re: Rodian Ships? Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the systems that can actually afford to build their own "type" of ships are going to be few and far between. Most systems will end up buying ships from those systems, with wealthier worlds being able to custom design their own ships to varying degrees. The others will be buying "stock" warship designs of varying degrees of sophistication, others will be buying Clone Wars surplus, and so on and so forth. Rodia will most likely fall into the latter category.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

MrNexx wrote:
I don't know of anything, but I imagine that, like a lot of species well-integrated into galactic society, and roughly in the 1.5-2m tall range of humanoids, they tend to use things that are more or less on par with everyone else. The Rodian "Z-95 Headhunter" won't be called a Z-95 Headhunter, necessarily, but it will be statistically equivalent.


This. I think you could argue that in an interrelated galactic economy such as depicted in SW, many non-core worlds (or at least Outer Rim worlds) don't manufacture their own starship, or have starship manufacturing facilities.

Much like how the EU and Arab world purchases U.S. fighter planes and commercial aircraft, Rodia might only purchase from Kuat Drive Yards and such.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 01, 2020 10:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ThrorII wrote:
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I don't know of anything, but I imagine that, like a lot of species well-integrated into galactic society, and roughly in the 1.5-2m tall range of humanoids, they tend to use things that are more or less on par with everyone else. The Rodian "Z-95 Headhunter" won't be called a Z-95 Headhunter, necessarily, but it will be statistically equivalent.


This. I think you could argue that in an interrelated galactic economy such as depicted in SW, many non-core worlds (or at least Outer Rim worlds) don't manufacture their own starship, or have starship manufacturing facilities.

Much like how the EU and Arab world purchases U.S. fighter planes and commercial aircraft, Rodia might only purchase from Kuat Drive Yards and such.


Even if Rodia does have a couple drive yards, I might also liken it to Kuat Drive Yards making the equivalent of a Toyota Camry, while Rodia makes the Hyundai Elantra... completely comparable vehicles.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks everyone for the replies!

This is a great community.
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 02, 2020 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Back in Star Wars Galaxies, this was called a "Rodian Shuttle."



Below is from ArtStation, Greedo's Ship [click for page]


Neither are official, but they are in my game.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 13, 2020 1:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Technology seems to cluster around certain centers of production. In the middle ages, most armor was made in Italy and Germany with other areas able to repair, maintain, and tailor armor but not make very much of it from scratch. Nowadays, most cars and planes are made in a handful of places. Rodia (and most cultures/planets) probably doesn't have it's own kind of ships. But, maybe that could be the adventure hook in your next campaign. Make 'em up. It's a roleplaying game.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 13, 2020 9:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep. Another possibility is that Rodia subcontracted ship construction, and call the products "Rodian".
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